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Dear friends, apologies for this off topic post. Mari is an email friend of mine. She does wonderful work for the needy cats of this world. If anyone can help,

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Dear friends, apologies for this off topic post. Mari is an email friend of mine. She does wonderful work for the needy cats of this world. If anyone can help, email me personally for Mari's address. Thank you. Following is a message from Pam and Alyssa about Mari's situation.
Love, Voula

Friends,

This was sent to me from a friend on the CRF list. Mari has been
giving her life to her special needs & FeLV kitties & she's now right on
the edge. Please see if you maybe have something you can send her to
help her out? Those of us with kitties who have cancer are using much
of
what she is using too & if we can donate some of our supplies to her, it
will mean so much.

This is one woman trying to save the kitties no one wants. Please help
her.

Pam & Troika

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I apologize in advance if this off-topic message offends anyone, but I
am
writing this message to all of you because a friend of mine, Mari, has
been
providing a forever home for special needs cats for 25 years, and she
needs
our help before her utilities are cut off and she loses her home. Mari
lives
on the east side of Houston, Texas, and she has focused her rescue
efforts
on leukemia positive (FeLV+) kitties for the past ten years. They are
her
"mumpkees" as she calls them, and she cares for them providing
veterinary
care, love and a forever home until they cross the Rainbow Bridge. Many
of
them also have feline herpes virus, a virus to which 80% of all cats
have
been exposed but to a small percentage it is a serious chronic disease
often
causing them to lose an eye or suffer from recurring bouts of uri's and
pneumonia. She also provides a forever home for those who have been
abused,
those missing eyes or limbs or those that are totally blind. Furbabies
who
are incontinent or have a condition called cerebellar hypoplasia (the
part
of the brain called the cerebellum which controls balance has been
damaged
due to genetics or the mother being exposed to distemper during
pregnancy)
are also welcome at Mari's. For most of Mari's babies, her forever home
has
kept them from being put to sleep by caregivers who couldn't or wouldn't

care for their special needs.

Feline leukemia is not the death sentence that many may think it is.
Many
cats with leukemia and/or herpes can (and do) live for many years. The
mumpkees are positive for leukemia and/or herpes viruses, but they are
not
"sick" with it. Vitamins and supplements help to keep their immune
systems
strong so that they can live relatively healthy lives. Looking at most
of
them you would not know they were sick as most are fat and healthy
looking.
They just are harboring viruses that could activate at any time. In
addition
to the FeLV+ mumpkees and other special needs babies, she feeds a colony
of
ferals and has had all of them neutered and provides shelter and
veterinary
care. She has financed all of this on her own with no support from
rescue
groups or other individuals.

Mari has had a tough time with finding work in her field -- she is an
upper
level administrative assistant and has excellent computer skills, but
over
the past year she had been working 12 hours a day at a grocery store gas

station for $5.25 an hour trying to make ends meet. Then the owner had
to
close it after the 9/11 tragedy. Having Enron, the airlines and Compac
laying off in the thousands each sure didn't help her job search.To add
to
her problems, the area she lives in was hit by serious flooding last
summer
and thousands lost their homes. Mari was fortunate that she didn't lose
her
home, but she lost a lot of furniture, carpeting and most all of the
meds
and the extra food and litter that she had stored and has not been able
to
replace any of it as she can't afford insurance.

I know times are difficult and we all have vet bills and other expenses,
but
Mari has devoted her life to these special creatures that most do not
want
and right now she seriously needs money to keep a roof over their heads
and
the utilities on. If she loses her home, these babies who are healthy
and
happy but not perfect will be euthanized as Houston shelters are filled
to
capacity with healthy cats trying to find a home.

If you can spare a little cash or can send some supplies, Mari would be
very
thankful. She has had to sell family jewelry and other valuable personal

items and is very afraid that she won't be able to pay the rent or keep
the
electricity and heat on, but she still continues to care for the kitties
in
need providing not just rescue but a loving home. She is a very caring,

selfless person who desperately needs some help. Please find it in your
hearts to help her and her kitties make it through this difficult time.
Any
assistance is greatly appreciated. If we can each just send $1 or maybe
$5
it would help her immensely. She isn't eligible for financial assistance

because she does keep working but we all know that a minimum wage job
can't
support a family. You can respond to me or directly to Mari atMUMPKEES@.... Her computer blew up last summer and she can't
afford
to fix it or buy a new one, so she goes to the library and may not be
able
to respond immediately.

Thank you in advance for any help that you can offer. Please help these
special furbabies stay in their forever home, warm and happy until Mari
can
get back on her feet. I keep thinking about what it would be like to be
in
that situation and knowing that my Calico, El Tigre and Scarlett might
lose
their lives because I lost my home and there was no place for them to
go.

Some things Mari needs (partial bottles of supplies are okay):

Gift certificates or gift cards to Wal-Mart, Petco and Petsmart for cat
food
and litter.

Pet Tinic

Val Syrup

Eyebright (herb)

Any kind of immune booster

Ester C high potency

Powdered Vitamin E

Cat Vitamins

Esiak (a cancer herb mixture)

Echinacea (tincture and capsules)

Echinacea and goldenseal (tincture and capsules)

Lysine - 500 mg. tablets or capsules

Empty Gel Caps in small to medium sizes

Amoxicillian (tablets or capsules)

Clavamox (tablets)

Baytril (tablets)

Advantage and revolution flea control products (flea season has already
begun)